So, as you may have heard, Donald Trump didn’t visit the troops on Christmas Day. It was the first time since 2002 that a sitting president hasn’t done so — clearly another black eye on the Trump presidency.

Make no mistake, folks: This is a president who doesn’t care about the troops. He says he does, but the fact he was unwilling to visit the men and women who fight and die for our country proves that his words are just empty…

Oh, wait, he did visit the troops? Oh. Well, let’s hypothetically say that I’m a member of the media who tweeted about Trump not visiting the troops and he did visit the troops. Theoretically, what would I be able to do to make this whole thing look less horrible? Asking for a friend.

“For the visit, which was unscheduled, Melania broke first lady precedent by traveling to an active combat zone. To take selfies with soldiers and speak military members, FLOTUS wore a suede mustard belted blouse with dark green pants,” Kerry Justich wrote for Yahoo Lifestyle.

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“It’s Melania’s shoe choice that really stood out though. The Timberland boots are being called an ‘out of touch’ style selection by some on Twitter.”

Right. By the same people who were probably going after Trump for not visiting the troops in the first place.

President Trump and the First Lady traveled to Iraq late on Christmas night to visit with our troops and Senior Military leadership to thank them for their service, their success, and their sacrifice and to wish them a Merry Christmas. pic.twitter.com/s2hntnRwpw

C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between America and Southeast Asia. He became a staunch right-winger at the age of three: While watching a clip of Ronald Reagan, he told his mother (to her great horror), "Mom, I'm a Republican." Except for a brief, scarring and inexplicable late high-school dalliance with Ralph Nader and his ilk, he's never looked back.
Aside from politics, he enjoys literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, jazz, spending time with his wife, drinking coffee and watching Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties). He is the proud owner of a very lazy West Highland white terrier and an extraordinary troublesome poodle mix of indeterminate provenance. His proudest accomplishments include reading the entirety of Thomas Pynchon's published oeuvre.